Destiny's Iron Banner Event Now Open

Bungie has kicked off the Iron Banner event in Destiny today, letting players go up against each other in the game's competitive arenas with full level advantages enabled.

Under normal circumstances, player-vs-player content in Destiny has stat bonuses from gear and character level disabled in an effort to create a sense of balance. However, for the next week, players can opt to take part in the Iron Banner PVP playlist, in which character stats count.

The event runs from today until October 14. Taking part will earn you Iron Banner reputation, which will unlock new legendary gear for purchase as a reward.

The Iron Banner is more about working as a pure team with communication possible between all the players with no item barriers. If you weapon is awesome, it's awesome. Pure skill and luck can still beat those weapons and armors, but they do help with inflicting and taking damage.

Honestly though, the best part about it is the 6-man fireteam, makes life SO! much easier.

the only difference i noticed is my Powers were popping faster (at least it felt like they were)
there were flames everywhere
inside the Zones, outside the Zones,
inside the enemy bubble shields, outside the enemy bubble shields.

I breezed through level 1 in under 2 hours early hours this morning. I found the matches about the same for me and my aggressive play style. About half the time I was getting owned usually by the same 2 guys the other half maybe the other guys were down some levels on us as I was the one doing the owning.if I can get to level 2 maybe I'll finally get my legendary helmet.